East Dallas, Swiss Avenue to Lakewood

East Dallas was a town of its own until Dallas annexed it on 1 January 1890. Swiss Avenue, Munger Place and Junius Heights are City historic districts, and seven of the City's nineteen conservation districts are here, Lakewood and the M Streets among them. Lower Greenville is the long commercial strip of Greenville Avenue and the residential streets on either side of it, and Lakewood runs east from there toward White Rock Lake. 5 guides are listed below.

What sets buying here apart is how much the City governs the front of the house, and that it does so in two different ways. In a historic district every exterior change needs a certificate of appropriateness, reviewed by City staff, the neighborhood and the Landmark Commission before the work starts. In a conservation district the neighborhood's own ordinance becomes the zoning, with development and architectural standards written for that district, and plans go through a work review before a permit is issued. The two are not the same rules and neither is the same from one district to the next, so the ordinance for the exact street is worth reading before the offer, above all if the plan is an addition or a teardown.